portion是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 一部分, 一份, 一客,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
-- A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European lan-guages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house.
-- Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.
-- A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority; and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.
-- All this portion of Bundelcund, which is little frequented by travellers, is inhabited by a fanatical population, hardened in the most horrible practices of the Hindoo faith.
-- "These sacrifices do not occur in the larger portion of India," replied Sir Francis; "but we have no power over these savage territories, and especially here in Bundelcund.
-- The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- blotted as it now was by the unphaged portion of the parish going in to Blackwater to receive the phage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- Miss Murdstone, during the latter portion of the contest, haddismounted, and was now waiting with her brother at the bottomof the steps until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them.
-- 'Indeed, sir,' said I, 'her affairs are so changed,that I wished to ask you whether it would be possible- at a sacrificeon our part of some portion of the premium, of course,' I put inthis, on the spur of the moment, warned by the blank expression ofhis face- 'to cancel my articles?'
-- Ihave always aspired, if I could have released him from the toils inwhich he was held, to render back some little portion of the loveand care I owe him, and to devote my life to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She went on herself, to give that portion of time to an old servant who was married, and settled in Donwell.
-- Some portion of respect for herself, however, in spite of all these demerits some concern for her own appearance, and a strong sense of justice by Harriet (there would be no need of compassion to the girl who believed herself loved by Mr. Knightley but justice required that she should not be made unhappy by any coldness now,) gave Emma the resolution to sit and endure farther with calm-ness, with even apparent kindness. For her own advantage indeed, it was fit that the utmost extent of Harriet's hopes should be enquired into; and Harriet had done nothing to forfeit the regard and interest which had been so voluntarily formed and maintained or to deserve to be slighted by the person, whose counsels had never led her right. Rousing from reflection, therefore, and subduing her emotion, she turned to Harriet again, and, in a more inviting accent, re-newed the conversation; for as to the subject which had first introduced it, the wonderful story of Jane Fairfax, that was quite sunk and lost. Neither of them thought but of Mr. Knightley and themselves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- As the wind blows the fire inwards, the portion in flames completely disappears like melting sugar, and the outline is lost to the eye.
-- The clean, sleek creature arose from its fleece how perfectly like Aphrodite rising from the foam should have been seen to be realized looking startled and shy at the loss of its garment, which lay on the floor in one soft cloud, united throughout, the portion visible being the inner surface only, which, never before exposed, was white as snow, and without flaw or blemish of the minutest kind.
-- Joseph Poorgrass was curled round in the fashion of a hedge-hog, apparently in attempts to present the least possible portion of his surface to the air; and behind him was dimly visible an unimportant remnant of William Smallbury.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His tale and the feelings he now ex-pressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?
-- I tried to stifle these sensa-tions; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
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